Professional Contract Services Inc
Austin, TX · EIN 74-2786094. Reported 93 grants totalling $2,145,500 to 32 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Professional Contract Services Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P80Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 86% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $110,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Association for Maximum Potential Inc | San Antonio, TX | $315,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Morgans Wonderland | San Antonio, TX | $300,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Military Makeover LLC | Deerfield, FL | $195,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Down Home Ranch Inc | Elgin, TX | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Reaching Maximum Independence Inc | San Antonio, TX | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Imagine a Way | Leander, TX | $107,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Samaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care Inc | Austin, TX | $98,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Special Olympics Texas Inc | San Antonio, TX | $90,000 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Mineral Wells Center of Life | Mineral Wells, TX | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Brenda and John H Duncan Rise School of Houston | Houston, TX | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Texas School for the Deaf Foundation | Austin, TX | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Central Oklahoma Fdn | Edmond, OK | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Haven for Hope of Bexar County | San Antonio, TX | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Respite Care of San Antonio Incorporated | San Antonio, TX | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carpenters Shelter Inc | Alexandria, VA | $45,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Special Reach Inc | San Antonio, TX | $45,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Houston Sw Veterans Center | Houston, TX | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mission Road Ministries | San Antonio, TX | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| CASA Esperanza Inc | Liberty Hill, TX | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Oklahoma | Lawton, OK | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Marbridge Foundation Inc | Manchaca, TX | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Star Group Community Development Corporation Inc | Grand Prairie, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Rubys Rainbow Inc | Austin, TX | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brighton Center | San Antonio, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Military Order of the Cootie of the United States | Turtle Creek, PA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Tadsaw Inc | San Antonio, TX | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| US Army Womens Foundation | Fort Lee, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Texas | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Center of Texas | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Warriors Weekend | Victoria, TX | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sugar Land Space Cowboys | Sugar Land, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kinetic Kids Inc | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
26 of 32 (81%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Camp - Children's Association for Maximum Potential
PROVIDE RECREATIONAL AND RESPITE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES - Morgan's Wonderland
PROVIDE OUTDOOR RECREATION, EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES - Morgan's Wonderland - Free to Soar Gala
SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS - Camp Children's Association for Maximum Potential
SUPPORT CHILDREN WITH THE DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES - Military Makeover LLC
HELP TRANSFORM HOMES AND LIVES OF VETERANS IN NEED - Down Home Ranch Inc
SUPPORT TEENAGERS AND ADULTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 32 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 23 | $420,500 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 23 | $584,000 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 23 | $534,000 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 24 | $607,000 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
83% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Professional Contract Services Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 718 W Fm 1626 Bldg 3, Austin, TX, 78748.
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